Auxiliary equation method for solving nonlinear Wick-type partial differential equations

Using the solutions of an auxiliary differential equation, a direct algebraic method is described to construct several kinds of exact travelling wave solutions for some Wick-type nonlinear partial differential equations. By this method some physically important nonlinear equations are investigated and new exact travelling wave solutions are explicitly obtained. In addition, the links between Wick-type partial differential equations and variable coefficient partial differential equations are also clarified generally.     

Exact travelling wave solutions of the discrete sine–Gordon equation obtained via the exp-function method

In this paper, we generalize the exp-function method, which was used to find new exact travelling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (NPDEs) or coupled nonlinear partial differential equations, to nonlinear differential–difference equations (NDDEs). As an illustration, two series of exact travelling wave solutions of the discrete sine–Gordon equation are obtained by means of the exp-function method. As some special examples, these new exact travelling wave solutions can degenerate into the kink-type solitary wave solutions reported in the open literature.     

非线性系统的精确解

Based on the computerized symbolic, a new generalized tanh functions method is used for constructing exact travelling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations （PDES） in a unified way. The main idea of our method is to take full advantage of an auxiliary ordinary differential equation which has more new solutions. At the same time, we present a more general transformation, which is a generalized method for finding more types of travelling wave solutions of nonlinear evolution equations （NLEEs）. More new exact travelling wave solutions to two nonlinear systems are explicitly obtained.     

More solutions of the auxiliary equation to get the solutions for a class of nonlinear partial differential equations

In this paper, a new auxiliary function method is presented for constructing exact travelling wave solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. By the relationships of Jacobi elliptic functions, we get more solutions of the auxiliary equation compared with El-Wakila and Abdou (2006) [22]. So, more new exact travelling wave solutions are obtained for a class of nonlinear partial differential equations.     

Travelling wave solutions of nonlinear partial equations by using the first integral method

In this paper, the first integral method is employed for constructing the new exact travelling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. The power of this manageable method is confirmed by applying it for two selected nonlinear partial equations. This approach can also be applied to other systems of nonlinear differential equations.     

A rational generalization of Fan’s method and its application to generalized shallow water wave equations

In this paper we employ a rational expansion to generalize Fan’s method for exact travelling wave solutions for nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). To verify the reliability of the proposed method, the generalized shallow water wave (GSWW) equation has been investigated as an example. Kinds of new exact travelling wave solutions of a rational form have been obtained. This indicates that the proposed method provides a more general result for exact solution of nonlinear equations.     

A Note on Some Sub-Equation Methods and New Types of Exact Travelling Wave Solutions for Two Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Sub-equation methods are used for constructing exact travelling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. The key idea of these methods is to take full advantage of all kinds of special solutions of sub-equation, which is usually a nonlinear ordinary differential equation. We present a function transformation which not only gives us a clear relation among these sub-equation methods, but also can be used to obtain the general solutions of these sub-equations. And then new exact travelling wave solutions of the CKdV-MKdV equation and the CKdV equations as applications of this transformation are obtained, and the approach presented in this paper can be also applied to other nonlinear partial differential equations.      

New exact travelling wave solutions for some nonlinear evolution equations, Part II

By using new solutions of an auxiliary ordinary differential equation, a direct algebraic method is described to construct the exact travelling wave solutions for nonlinear evolution equation. By this method some nonlinear evolution equations are investigated and new exact travelling wave solutions are explicitly obtained with the aid of symbolic computation.     

New exact travelling wave solutions for the Kawahara and modified Kawahara equations

By using the solutions of an auxiliary ordinary differential equation, a direct algebraic method is described to construct the exact travelling wave solutions for nonlinear evolution equations. By this method the Kawahara and the modified Kawahara equations are investigated and new exact travelling wave solutions are explicitly obtained with the aid of symbolic computation.     

A note on the elliptic equation method

The elliptic equation method is improved for constructing exact travelling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). The rational forms of Jacobi elliptic functions are presented. By using new Jacobi elliptic function solutions of the elliptic equation, new doubly periodic solutions are obtained for some important PDEs. This method can be applied to many other nonlinear PDEs.     

New exact complex travelling wave solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation

Two improved direct algebraic methods for constructing exact complex travelling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations are presented. These improved methods are applied to NLS equation, and then new types exact complex solutions are obtained.     

New travelling wave solutions of the generalized coupled Hirota–Satsuma KdV system

In this paper, by the application of hyperbolic function, triangle function and symbolic computation, we devise a new method to seek the exact travelling wave solutions of the nonlinear partial differential equations in mathematical physics. The generalized coupled Hirota–Satsuma KdV system is chosen to illustrate the approach. As a consequence, abundant new solitary and periodic solutions are obtained.     

New exact travelling wave solutions of Kawahara type equations

The Auxiliary equation method is used to find analytic solutions for the Kawahara and modified Kawahara equations. It is well known that different types of exact solutions of the given auxiliary equation produce new types of exact travelling wave solutions to nonlinear equations. In this paper, new exact solutions of the auxiliary equation are presented. Using these solutions, many new exact travelling wave solutions for the Kawahara type equations are obtained.     

Generalized method and its application in the higher-order nonlinear Schrodinger equation in nonlinear optical fibres

A generalized method, which is called the generally projective Riccati equation method, is presented to find more exact solutions of nonlinear differential equations based upon a coupled Riccati equation. As an application of the method, we choose the higher-order nonlinear Schrodinger equation to illustrate the method. As a result more new exact travelling wave solutions are found which include bright soliton solutions, dark soliton solution, new solitary waves, periodic solutions and rational solutions. The new method can be extended to other nonlinear differential equations in mathematical physics.     

An observation on the periodic solutions to nonlinear physical models by means of the auxiliary equation with a sixth-degree nonlinear term

It is a fact that in auxiliary equation methods, the exact solutions of different types of auxiliary equations may produce new types of exact travelling wave solutions to nonlinear equations. In this manner, various auxiliary equations of first-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation with distinct-degree nonlinear terms are examined and, by means of symbolic computation, the new solutions of original auxiliary equation of first-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation with sixth-degree nonlinear term are presented. Consequently, the novel exact solutions of the generalized Klein–Gordon equation and the active-dissipative dispersive media equation are found out for illustration purposes. They are also applicable, where conventional perturbation method fails to provide any solution of the nonlinear problems under study.     

New generalized Jacobi elliptic function expansion method

A new generalized Jacobi elliptic function expansion method is described and used for constructing many new exact travelling wave solutions for nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) in a unified way. We obtain many new Jacobi and Weierstrass double periodic elliptic function solutions for (3 + 1)-dimensional Kadmtsev–Petviashvili (KP) equation. This method can be applied to many other equations.     

Explicit and exact travelling wave solutions for the generalized derivative Schrödinger equation

In this paper, a new auxiliary equation expansion method and its algorithm is proposed by studying a first order nonlinear ordinary differential equation with a sixth-degree nonlinear term. Being concise and straightforward, the method is applied to the generalized derivative Schrödinger equation. As a result, some new exact travelling wave solutions are obtained which include bright and dark solitary wave solutions, triangular periodic wave solutions and singular solutions. This algorithm can also be applied to other nonlinear wave equations in mathematical physics.     

非线性耦合Klein-Gordon方程组和耦合Schr\"{o}dinger-Boussinesq方程组的双行波解

本文提出了一种全新复合$(\frac{G''}{G})$展开方法,运用这种新方法并借助符号计算软件构造了非线性耦合Klein-Gordon方程组和耦合Schr\"{o}dinger-Boussinesq方程组的多种双行波解,包括双双曲正切函数解,双正切函数解,双有理函数解以及它们的混合解. 复合$(\frac{G''}{G})$展开方法不但直接有效地求出了两类非线性偏微分方程的双行波解,而且扩大了解的范围.这种新方法对于研究非线性偏微分方程具有广泛的应用意义.     

Extended Jacobin elliptic function method and its applications

An extended Jacobin elliptic function method is presented for constructing exact travelling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) in a unified way. The main idea of this method is to take full advantage of the elliptic equation that Jacobin elliptic functions satisfy and use its solutions to replace Jacobin elliptic functions in Jacobin elliptic function method. It is interesting that many other methods are special cases of our method. Some illustrative equations are investigated by this means.     

A complex tanh-function method applied to nonlinear equations of Schrödinger type

A complex tanh-function method is introduced for constructing exact travelling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations with complex phases and solutions. The scheme is implemented for obtaining multiple soliton solutions to the nonlinear cubic Schrödinger equation and a generalized Schrödinger-like equation. In additon. an ansätze is proposed to obtain stationary soliton solutions of the cubic Schrödinger equation.